[ltp] Slack install, getting close?

[Ron Joffe]

John,

I've been following your thread on getting a serial console install for your 
thinkpad. 

I don't know if this will help, but I noticed the other day when installing a 
version of SuSE 7.3 that at one part of the install it goes out and looks for 
a Braille device. I would assume this is a serial device.

Ron


On Monday 18 March 2002 09:49, you wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I'm that blind guy who's trying to install Slackware ona TP 755ce.
>
> I managed to partition the hard drive with a little help from my wife and
> by doing a simultaneous install (via a serial console) on another machine.
> Except for the partition sizes, I just did exactly the same thing on my
> Thinkpad as I did on the other machine.
>
> But now I'm stuck because I can't get Slack to recognize my PCMCIA network
> card. And the help I found on the web is too complex to do w/o sight.
>
> So I'm back to trying to enable the serial port so I can do a serial
> console install. I catted /proc/interrupts and the serial port isn't listed
> at all. Do I have to enable it through tpctl before it'll show up? Maybe
> that's what it means to be disabled -- it doesn't have an interrupt.

-- 
Ron Joffe
rjoffe@yahoo.com


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